Price tag holder



Dec. 22,1931. PASCHEILL 1,837,288

PRICE TAG HOLDER Filed 0c 5,, 1930 Patented Dec. 22, 1931 UNITED STATES ANTHON I-I. PASGHELL, OF CHEROKEE, IOWA PRICE TAG HOLDER Application filed October 3, 1930. Serial No. 486,069.

This invention is a price tag holder for use in stores of all kinds for neatly andattractively holding and displaying price tags upon any of the goods sold within the store.

An object of the invention is to provide a very cheap and efficient form and structure of price tag holder, which will be durable and which may be used for an indefinite period of time.

Another object is to provide a price tag holder which may be easily and readily mounted in place upon the goods being sold and as readily removed therefrom as desired.

Another object is to provide a price tag holder adapted for resiliently engaging or gripping the article upon which it is mounted and also for resiliently engaging or gripping the price tag being displayed.

Still another object is to provide a price tagv holder which may be readily adapted for mounting upon articles of various kinds and dimensions.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the price tag holder as contemplated by this invention, showing the same as mounted upon a jar or can;

Figure 2 is an elevation showing the assembly of Figure 1, taken at an angle of ninety degrees;

Figure 3 is an elevation showing the invention as mounted upon an orange, apple, or other round fruit;

Figure 4 is an elevation showing the assembly of Figure 3, taken at an angle of ninety degrees;

Figure 5 is an elevation showing the invention as mounted upon a bottle neck.

The invention comprises a length of any suitable attenuated and resilient material, such as spring wire of steel or brass 1, coiled twice at its middle portion as shown at 2 to form a double-looped, tag gripping jaw 8, between the coils of which a price tag 4 may be readily inserted and there frictionally held and displayed. The two ends 5 of the wire or other material are then bent and formed so as to engage and resiliently grip in the most suitable and convenient way the object or article upon which the holder is to be mounted. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, these ends are bent and looped into laterally extended feet 6, slightly curved inwardly and thus adapted to resiliently grip the jar 7. As shown in Figures 8 and 4, these ends are coiled to form helices 8, and soadapted to resiliently grip a round form of fruit such as an orange 9. As shown in Figure 5, these ends are bent inwardly as shown at 10 in Figure 5, and then looped laterally as shown at 6 in Figure 2, and so adapted to span and grip the neck of a bottle 11. In each adaptation, the tag gripping jaws 3 are integrally connected with the article engaging ends or feet5 through shoulder portions 12 of the same wire or other material of which the invention is constructed, said shoulder portions being formed and shaped complementarily to the article upon which the holder is to be mounted. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, these shoulder portions are straight as shown at 13 to conform with the top of the jar 7;

while in Figures 3 and 4:, these portions are curved as shown at 14 to conform with the curvature of the orange 9. I

Of course, these holders may be constructed and would need to be constructed in a variety of sizes to meet the requirements of articles and goods of varying sizes. The double coil gripping jaws 3 in combination with the shoulder portions 12 and feet 5, all of resilient material, provide a very efficient tag holding means and one which readily grips and holds both the tag and the article upon which it is mounted, while the shoulder portions conforming to the shape of the article afford a very substantial bearing for the tag holder and prevent its displacement. It will be noted that the shoulder portions 12 pass uninterrupted by twists or the like directly into the integrally connected double looped jaws 3, thereby affording a continuously resilient holder.

While I have herein described a certain specific method of constructing and assembling the elements of my invention, it is understood that I may vary from the same in minor details, not departing from the spirit of my invention, as defined in the appended claim.

I claim:

A device of the kind described, the same being formed of a length of attenuated material and comprising a central, double looped 5 tag gripping jaw, article engaging feet at the ends and article engaging shoulder portions connecting the feet and the gripping jaws, the said shoulder portions extending out continuously and untWisted at the lower side of the double loops of the tag gripping In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ANTI-ION H. PASCHELL. 

